The itthinx plugin is a well respected plugin for managing the visibility of pages, parts of pages, and attached documents according to the ‘group’ membership of a logged in user. I believe this would be a good solution in the medium term for getting moreSiteworks functionality integrated with a member management system such as Beacon. It is NOT planned for inclusion in the current Siteworks project,
Below is a test of the Itthinx group membership plugin using blocks.
– You are not logged in. (Note that all users are automatically members of the Registered Itthinx-group.)
That is the end of the simple test. You can log in as someone else to see the difference!
- Try
ann (pwd: test) not a current member - beth (pwd: test) current member
- carol(pwd: test) current and in two groups
- edward is an editor if you know the pwd.
There are a lot of other things that can be done with itthinx groups. In particular making documents available only to members of a specified group or groups.